C.B. Vaandrager
(Netherlands, 1935–1992)
Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager’s life and work are more intricately intertwined …
Udayan Vajpeyi
(India, 1960)
Udayan Vajpeyi is a Hindi poet, essayist, short fiction and script writer. He has …
Ashok Vajpeyi
(India, 1941)
Ashok Vajpeyi is a noted Hindi poet, critic, essayist and translator, and a dynamic …
Milko Valent
(Croatia, 1948)
Milko Valent was born in 1948 in Zagreb. He graduated from the University of Zagreb …
Karel van de Woestijne
(Belgium, 1878–1929)
Karel van de Woestijne is perhaps the most important post-symbolist poet to have …
Stefaan van den Bremt
(Belgium, 1941)
Stefaan van den Bremt made his debut in 1968 with poems classified as neo-realistic, …
Lies Van Gasse
(Belgium, 1983)
Lies Van Gasse made her debut in 2008 with the collection Hetzelfde gedicht steeds …
Miriam Van hee
(Belgium, 1952)
Miriam Van hee debuted in 1978 with her poems about homesickness, melancholy and …
Hubert van Herreweghen
(Belgium, 1920)
Hubert van Herreweghen made his début during the Second World War as a poet expressing …
Geert van Istendael
(Belgium, 1947)
Brussels and Belgium: both are impossible to avoid in the oeuvre of Geert van …
Marlene van Niekerk
(South Africa, 1954)
Marlene van Niekerk is a poet, critic, novelist, dramatist and professor of writing who …
Mark van Tongele
(Belgium, 1956)
In personal correspondence, Mark van Tongele invariably signs off with the words …
Eddy Van Vliet
(Belgium, 1942–2002)
Eddy van Vliet, who in daily life was a practising lawyer, was also someone for whom …
Maud Vanhauwaert
(Belgium, 1984)
Maud Vanhauwaert is a poet, writer, performer and drama teacher at the Royal …
Ruth Vanita
(India, 1955)
Ruth Vanita is a poet, editor, translator, academic and activist. Her book of poems, …
Szabolcs Várady
(Hungary, 1943)
Szabolcs Várady (pronounced: Sábbolch Wáradi) was born in Budapest …
Carlos Vásquez
(Colombia, 1956)
Perhaps because of his philosophical formation and teaching of philosophy, Carlos …
Násos Vayenás
(Greece, 1945)
Násos Vayenás writes poems about love, death, Woman, and poetry. He writes about the …
Veerankutty
(India, 1963)
Veerankutty, a prominent environmental poet of the new generation in Malayalam, has …
Anne Vegter
(Netherlands, 1958)
“Miracles hang slack with laughter off the table, not even properly …
Alberto Vélez
(Colombia, 1957)
A lawyer with a degree from the Universidad de Antioquia, Alberto Vélez has worked as …
Cesário Verde
(Portugal, 1855–1886)
Son of a prosperous hardware dealer based in Lisbon, Cesário Verde was destined to take …
Hans Verhagen
(The Netherlands, 1939)
Hans Verhagen started as a poet in the turbulent 1960s, with collections whose titles …
Peter Verhelst
(Belgium, 1962)
For poet and novelist Peter Verhelst, creation equals destruction. His motifs and …
Marko Vešovic
(Yugoslavia, 1945)
Marko Vešovic was born in the village of Pape, near Bijelo Polje in northern …
Ann Vickery
(Australia, 1968)
In Ann Vickery’s Devious Intimacy, the intimacy she explores is not only …
Luis Vidales
(Colombia, 1900–1990)
Luis Vidales was 26 when he published a slim book of avant-garde poems, Suenan …
Wendy Videlock
(USA, 1961)
Wendy Videlock’s poems seem to grow from the same plot as myths, fables and morals. Her …
Maruja Vieira
(Colombia, 1922)
Maruja Vieira has been at the center of Colombia’s political and cultural life. …
Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir
(Iceland, 1958)
Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir still lives in Reykjavik, her place of birth. She works as a …
Gian Mario Villalta
(Italy, 1959)
Gian Mario Villalta was born in Visinale di Pasiano (Pordenone) in 1959. After …
Borben Vladović
(Croatia, 1943)
Borben Vladović was born in October 1943 in Split. His poetry has been translated …
Haris Vlavianós
(Greece, 1957)
Haris Vlavianós strives to be innovative in his poetry, to explore new avenues; he …
David Vogel
(Russia, 1891–1944)
“I love him very much,” says Lilach Netanel, the scholar who discovered the …
Jan Erik Vold
(Norway, 1939)
Jan Erik Vold was born in Oslo in 1939. In the 1960s he studied languages and …
Nyk de Vries
(The Netherlands, 1971)
Nyk de Vries is a writer and musician. He was born in Noardburgum in Friesland and read …
Leo Vroman
(The Netherlands, 1915–2014)
Leo Vroman is the ‘grand old man’ of Dutch poetry. He began writing poems …
 

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